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Meningioma
A common type of slow growing, usually benign brain tumor that arises from the dura, one of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. A meningioma may occur wherever there is dura but the most common sites are over…
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Show more- Congenital deafness and retinitis pigmentosa (Also called Usher syndrome.) A genetic disorder characterized by hearing impairment and an eye disorder…
- School, first American medical See: First American medical school
- Prostate acid phosphatase (PAP) Prostatic acid phosphatase, an enzyme that is produced by the prostate (and other tissues) and that is…
- Elastase inhibitor See: Antielastase
- Base excision repair A process of DNA repair in which an altered base is excised (removed) by a DNA glycosylase enzyme, followed…
- Clone bank Synonym for Genomic library.
- Womyn Woman. A late 20th century feminist creation to avoid the suffix man
- Spider telangiectasia Spider veins.
- Tache noire Black spot (in French), a small ulcer covered with a black crust at the site of a tick bite, characteristic…
- Poland sequence A unique pattern of one-sided malformations characterized by a defect of the chest (pectoralis) muscle on one…
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis A benign proliferative form of monoarthritis (arthritis in just one joint) that can occurs at any age but is…
- Progressive vaccinia A severe complication of smallpox vaccination that occurs because of an immune defect in the vaccinated…